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PayPal announced new funds withdrawal functionality to withdraw PayPal money to credit card, debit card, or prepaid cards in 26 countries. The process only takes 3 easy steps.

Image: withdraw paypal funds to credit card

The new feature is great for PayPal members in the countries where previously can send money but had limited ways to receive or withdraw money. Example: Previously, Malaysian PayPal members can only send or receive PayPal funds but no official way to withdraw the funds. Now, they can withdraw their funds to their card.

The new functionality is available in: Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Cyprus, Estonia, Gibraltar, Iceland, Indonesia, India, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lichtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Philippines, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, UAE, and Uruguay.

Check PayPal Offerings Worldwide for updates.

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Last year, I reviewed Shopify, which allows non-techie users create a professional online shop in minutes. The company, Jaded Pixel, launched Shopify Marketplace to provides a global search of products from any participating Shopify shop.

Image: Shopify Marketplace search

Shopify Marketplace is a Web 2.0 style product search. It returns products from Shopify shops according to your keyword. It support common search engine queries, such as “quotes” and -”exclude terms”. Related tags, product type, and vendors are listed in sidebar. There is a slide bar allowing you to set the price range. I like it!

For Mac users, there is a Shopify Marketplace widget for your dashboard.

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Jim Ambach of eBay.com announced that starting April 16, 2007, eBay sellers will be able to link from their listings to videos that describe their items. Example listing with video link: eBay: YOU WILL LOVE G4

Previously, I wrote about EBay rejected my bidding and required credit card verification. The problem has been solved now, finally.

I check back the eBay forum few days ago and discovered a reply from debt68 that we can get verified by eBay by open an eBay seler account:

1. Log in to www.ebay.com.my
2. Click on the “Sell” tab.
3. Go to “Sign up for a seller account” and click on “seller account”.
4. Key in your Credit(Debit)card details and your personal information if necessary.
5. The system will then authorize a RM1 transaction but won’t charge.
6. Once done, go back to where you want to bid.

I tried and it works!

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Maybe this is a bad news for Malaysians. I tried to bid (”BuyIt Now”) an item on EBay but failed because Ebay required me to verify my account using a Credit Card, even after I did it!

The above screenshot is the message I received when I tried to confirm my EBay “BuyIt Now” purchase, it reads as follow:

To help protect your eBay account, we limit the amount of items that can be bought or sold by a single account at one time.

You can increase the activity limits on your account by taking one or more of the following actions:

Verify using a Credit Card

Process is immediate and your card will not be charged.Important: only available for Visa Credit and Mastercard.

Verify credit card? No problem, I have PB Visa Electron debit card (which I used it to verify my PayPal account) !

I was wrong.

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